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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > General
The Human User's Manual aka the Rules of THUM is a simple
collection of exercises and insights which when practiced correctly
enhance and shape a happy life for the reader. This book is a
melding of philosophy and science, but it is not intended to
replace care or treatment from your doctor or replace faith in your
religion. It is instead, a practical and useful tool for those of
us looking to align ourselves with the ebb and flow of our
circumstance.
Genitalogy Most great civilizations cultivate honored traditions
which provide tools to help people understand themselves, each
other, and an unpredictable world. These often insightful teachings
invite us to look at the stars (Astrology), our eyes (Iridology),
our hands (Palmistry), the space around us (Aurus), magical cards
(Tarot decks), Yarrow sticks (the I-Ching), tea leaves, Ouija
boards, and today's favorite, Science, to help us explain our lives
- past, present, and future.
It's striking that, with rich and vast diversity, none of these
traditions explore genitalia as a key to understanding the
mysteries of life, especially when it comes to love. Why have
almost all cultures ignored what is, perhaps, the most intimate
part of our own bodies - our genitals?
A retired attorney and Catholic priest, Moore offers a radical,
magical blending of fact and imagination. He uncovers
control-by-fear tactics of religion and governments that have
dominated for centuries. His joyful wisdom reveals Christians'
birthright--original innocence, self-mastery, and true freedom.
(Christian)
This excellent book represents one of the first and best
presentations of Eastern wisdom in the English language. It
concerns ancient Hindu traditions and the Yogic practice of
observing and regulating the breath. We begin with an admission
that Western students are often confused by what exactly Yoga is,
and what it is meant to accomplish. Stereotypes of the yogi as
spindly, dirty and disheveled men commonly seen sitting in fixed
posture at a roadside or marketplace abound. Yet these dismissive
images serve only to neglect the spiritual substance and ancient
wisdom of yogi science. Seeking to dispel the negative stereotypes
and present the vivid truth, Atkinson discusses the multiple
schools of yoga and their general purpose. Some emphasize control
over the body's motions, while others favor inner development of
the spirit. Several however emphasize the control of the breath;
and it a practical explanation of this that Atkinson relays in the
remaining fifteen chapters of this book.
The Harrowed Path describes the experience in 1972 of a 21 year old
man struggling to come to terms with experiences diagnosed as
Schizophrenia. It is a vivid and compelling account of events both
within and out-with his fractured consciousness. The story
describes the breakdown of all his normal ability and perception
and their replacement with a terrifying, debilitating and
self-destructive inner world. It depicts his extraordinary struggle
and many lost battles. It describes the various types of help
offered, both medical and non-medical. Finally it outlines the
experience of his healing. All this takes place within the vivid
landscapes of London, Gloucestershire and Hampshire.
This book addresses the primary form of energy in Creation and the
need for its right recognition and usage for the development of
mankind and their surroundings. Over millennia this energy has been
misdirected by man due to his ignorance of its existence and nature
of working. As a consequence, only works that have led to despair,
chaos and destruction have formed in great numbers and grown
through the thinking and general activity of men. The right use of
this energy always leads to upbuilding in Creation, because it
brings together and holds forms and substances in ways that only
encourage upward growth and beauty.Loss of this energy through
non-recognition and lack of absorption and right use leads to a
decrease in its supply and in the effects of its magnetic and
upbuilding power. Disintegration or "a falling apart" results from
this lack of or reduction in the flow of the currents of this
primary energy and takes the form of the break-down in peace,
morality and the general ability to experience true joy by
mankind.In this hour of twelve, when the fruits of the wrong use of
this power are returning to man in earnest, and with great force
and rapidity, with the threat of destroying him and his world, it
is paramount that its true nature becomes known to man so that he
may respond rightly to what comes to him in this time and avert the
irreversible destructive and devastating fate that lies at the end
of the path upon which he has treaded now for ages.
Have you ever felt a call from somewhere deep within telling you
there must be more to life? For Meredith Rom, this call came at age
twenty-two while she was lying in savasana on the floor of a packed
New York City yoga studio. It came on the heels of an unpleasant
breakup and an unforeseen turn in the economic market―so, with no
job offers in sight, she chose to listen. Rom followed her
intuition across the country to San Francisco, and soon after,
halfway around the world to India. This coming-of-age memoir takes
you inside the ashrams of gurus and sages of the far East, where
one woman learns to heal her heart, believe in the magical
happenstance of the universe, and find an unshakable love and trust
within herself.
Purple star is an angelic being, who is a star that shines in the
night sky but also can transform into human shape living on the
spiritual realm. This book is her story to what she has witnessed
with the fight between heaven and hell and how earth is always in
the middle. Purple star is a seerer and can see the path in which
knights and warriors are to take. She is also known as a path
finder as she sees things that others do not. This book is all
based on the spiritual realm known as the angelic realm. She tells
of fights between the light and the dark, a rescue mission and how
her life becomes in danger, and a dark star angel that lives in the
dark and who has fallen in love with purple star, and she knows it,
but they both accept their own path and side they live. Many keep
them apart, and the dark will not release him to be with her in the
light. He is punished many times for protecting her to the point
his life force flows from his body. Together they are a mighty
fighting force their gifts combined, and they would withstand all
that is thrown at them; one protects the other, and nobody would be
able to come between them. The light accepts him as he has harm
none.
Babyboom Doom is a stirring testimony of the life of a soldier,
whose attitude was shaped by the historical events of his time. The
war doomed many of his generation to a life of unsolicited self
discovery. After war, Casey seemingly is forever doomed to a life
of failures, but with true grit and fortitude, he struggles on to
become a survivor of the Babyboom Doom .
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